Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

Copy and paste is a design error.

One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, too.

It is not the small number of big decisions that we take but the large number of small decisions that we take in life, shapes our life.

Mom wanted me to fight. To live.I'd just never dreamed that I'd have to do it alone.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

This shows you are never too old to get surprised.

After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.